You cannot prevent mass shootings as much as you cannot prevent people murdering people en mass with any other things, cars, poison, microwaves, electricity etc.
How do we prevent assholes like that one that killed all those people?
A well armed society is a polite society.
What has happened is that ever since the Civil War, which was neither declared nor marked as concluded by the signing of a peace treaty, is that the Federal Government has been working in a Private Capacity and hasn't taken the Oath to the Constitution but to the Corporate Charter that was enacted in 1868, which parrots the actual Constitution.
Back to the point I was making, the original Bill of Rights that the Protestants won from the King, ensured that people have a right to bear arms for their defense. The Bill of Rights which was added years after the Constitution was first finalized (which goes to show that the document wasn't "for the people of America", as some of the language explicitly states by excluding Slaves, and Natives from the political process and it took some years to tack on the Bill of Rights which secures our freedoms on paper/principle) was amended in a time where you would have been seen as a LUNATIC to even mention Gun Control and the reason for our Second Amendment Right being worded as it is, was to Record that the people have the right to Band Together in order for the security of a Free State.
The conversation about the Legitimacy of the US Congress and the lack of quorum for over one and a half centuries precludes all other issues of "government", without that most critical and important of fact I will not participate, as 2/3's of people who aren't Registered to Vote equally express their choice of not participating, in The Majority Voting to Eat the Minority for Dinner. Mob Rule is amoral, it's as if people truly have no sense of right and wrong. And this is evident because the Majority Vote to NOT-VOTE, and then how is that DEMOCRACY?! the 12% vote to eat the rest for dinner the ones that conspire make all the rules, absurdity.
Nobody can "PREVENT" anything. Nobody can Guarantee Tomorrow (hence why contracts cannot exist in a rational society, SMART or otherwise)
We cannot prevent things like the rain, we can however prevent mass shootings. I refuse to believe otherwise. If we couldnt prevent them then mass shootings would be a worldwide epidemic and not just a mostly american problem.
If the the most lethal weapon on the market is a hunting rifle or a pistol, that is a large step towards preventing a mass shooting
Maybe it is just the American culture that has become this way
Does this happen in developed nations?
How do you explain the case of Australia after it's mass shooting in 1996 and subsequent ban on long guns? There has not been a single mass shooting since. That sounds to me like the Australian government took preventative measures.
Because supposedly America is a developed nation. You are talking about anarchy and things out of fictional tales.
Right, Australia still has problems, but what they don't have is a gun problem and that is the issue at hand in this discussion.
Do you really think that arming everyone to the teeth would create a peaceful and working society? DO you think you'd feel safe walking around at night knowing everyone is packing weapons in their pants. Do you think that countries where citizens don't own weapons are living in a police state?